YEALMPTON is a large village and parish in
Plympton St. Mary union, containing, by the census of 1861, 1035
inhabitants, and 3537 acres; in the deanery and hundred of Plympton,
archdeaconry of Totnes, diocese of Exeter, South Devonshire, 6½
miles east from Plymouth, and 5 south-east from Plympton St. Mary
Station, on the South Devon Railway; on the banks of the river Yealm,
from whence its name, and on which there is a salmon fishery. The
vicarage, in the incumbency of the Rev. William Thomas Huxham Eales,
B.A., had the tithes commuted, in 1841, at £307 per annum, with
residence and 22 acres of glebe land, and is in the patronage of the
Bishop of Exeter. The rectorial tithes were also commuted at £355
per annum. The church is a fine edifice, dedicated to Saint
Bartholomew, consisting of nave, chancel, north and south aisles,
with tower and six bells: it was rebuilt in 1850, with the exception
of the tower, by Edmund Rodney Pollexfen Battard, Esq., at an expense
of about £7500. The screen dividing the nave and chancel is of
carved marble, and the columns between the nave and aisles are in
alternate layers of rough and polished marble; the communion table
consists of a marble slab in oak frame; the font (one of the finest
in the country) is a beautiful carved octagon, supported at each
angle by serpentine columns resting on a black base, the whole of
Devonshire marble. There are four stained-glass windows, the one in
the east end consists of five sections, representing the saints,
Bartholomew, Paul, John the Baptist, and John the Evangelist, and
underneath each alternate section, St. Bartholomew preaching to the
people, the crucifixion of St. Peter, and the beheading of St. Paul;
the intervening sections being filled with stained glass only: it is
to the memory of E.R.P. Bastard, Esq., who restored the church. There
is an ancient brass to the memory of Sir John Crocker, who was
standard bearer to Edward IV. In the churchyard is a very ancient and
curious stone, supposed to have been raised to the memory of Sipsius,
standard bearer to the Saxon King Ethelwolf, whose palace was in
this parish. The Wesleyans have a place of worship, and there is a
Parochial Scholl for children of both sexes. There is a Police
Station and Sessions House, in which the magistrates hold Petty
Sessions monthly, and the meetings of the Highway Board are also held
there. There is a cattle market on the fourth Wednesday in each
month, and a fair annually on the 25th May. There are several
charitable bequests for the benefit of the poor.

DUNSTONE, LONGBROOK, LYNEHAM, WILBERTON,
and WERSTON are hamlets
of this parish.

Coleman Richard, relieving officer and registrar of births and deaths
for the Yealmpton district, Prospect cottages

Cornish Charles, butcher and farmer

Cornish William, shoemaker

Crocker Henry, millwright

Dawe Joseph, farmer, Higher Dunstone

Dingle Thomas, artist, Longbrook cottage

Ellis John D., farmer, Treeby farm

Ford Henry, farmer, Halltorrs

GILES JOSEPH, manure and insurance agent, Dunstone house

Hall Thomas, shoemaker

Hammick John, shopkeeper

Hole Joseph, miller, Yealm bridge

Jenkins Mrs. Maria, farmer, East Pitton

Jones Philip, carrier

Kelly Thomas, solicitor, commissioner in Common Law and Chancery,
clerk to the magistrates for the Erme and Plym division, to the
commissioners of Land, Assessed, and Income Taxes, to the Highway
Board of the Ermington and Plympton district, and superintendent
registrar for Plympton St Mary union